Machine made lace

Flemish Lace

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Flemish lace edging attached to a piece of black fabric.

Historical information

This lace is similar in appearance to Genoese collar laces but the thread is much finer and the lace softer. At the time it would have been an expensive fashionable lace trimming.
This particular piece was borrowed and used as an illustration in Pat Earnshaw's book "The identification of Lace"

Machine made lace

Machine Filet

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

A length of individual square motifs

Historical information

Machine made lace.
Probably made on a Levers machine using jacquard apparatus to make a series of individual square motifs. These were probably destined to be cut apart and used as applique pieces on some other textile.

Historical information

Flemish or Honiton

Australian Lace Guild - Victorian Branch, Gardenvale

Bobbin lace motifs appliqued onto a machine made net.
Edging.

Historical information

Valuable old lace was often salvaged to be used again. Here motifs have been reclaimed from an earlier 18th Century lace (probably damaged) and appliqued onto machine made cotton net probably early in the 19th Century. The original motifs are either Flemish or Honiton.
Use: as a costume trimming